Mayor Eric Adams Names Crowell & Moring’s Preetha Chakrabarti to Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
Firm News | 1 min read | 08.03.23
New York – August 3, 2023: New York City Mayor Eric Adams named Crowell & Moring’s Preetha Chakrabarti to the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.
According to the executive order establishing the committee, the MACJ has the responsibility “to recruit, to evaluate, to consider and to nominate judicial candidates highly qualified for appointment and to evaluate the incumbent judges for reappointment to the following courts within The City of New York: Criminal Court, Family Court and, for interim appointments, Civil Court.” The committee also engages in outreach efforts to ensure a diverse and broad pool of individuals with the highest qualifications for judicial office, including outreach to various bar associations.
Chakrabarti is a member of the firm’s Technology & Intellectual Property Department, a co-leader of the firm’s ESG Advisory Group, and a co-leader of the firm’s Metaverse working group. Her practice cuts across all areas of intellectual property, consisting of litigation, counseling, licensing, and transactional due diligence as well as trademark prosecution. In particular, she advises clients in the technology, retail, and fashion industries on how best to manage risks when using and developing intellectual property.
Chakrabarti has an active pro bono practice, including cases involving appellate, immigration, family, and employment law as well as IP counseling for nonprofit entities. She successfully represented Sandra Avery, a woman sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent, low-level drug crime who sought commutation of her sentence from President Barack Obama, reducing her life sentence to time served.
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